ReviewAoB PLANTS2022
A viewpoint on ecological and evolutionary study of plant thermal performance curves in a warming world.
Review in AoB PLANTS, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Post-Dispersal Embryo Growth Is a Thermal Checkpoint for Seed Regeneration.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Catch me if you can:bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Thermal performance ofAoB PLANTS · 2026Article
- Seagrasses are most vulnerable to marine heatwaves in tropical zones: local-scale and broad climatic zone variation in thermal tolerances.The New phytologist · 2026Article
- Increased heat tolerance of geothermal plants at the cost of reduced performance under cooler conditions.BMC ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Impacts of temperature on recombination rate and meiotic success in thermotolerant and cold-tolerant yeast species.Heredity · 2025Article
- Threatened Birds in a Changing Mediterranean Wetland: Long-Term Trends and Climate-Driven Threats.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The evolution of thermal performance curves in response to rising temperatures across the model genus yeast.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Testing the evolutionary potential of an alpine plant: phenotypic plasticity in response to growth temperature outweighs parental environmental effects and other genetic causes of variation.Journal of experimental botany · 2024Article
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Abstract
We can understand the ecology and evolution of plant thermal niches through thermal performance curves (TPCs), which are unimodal, continuous reaction norms of performance across a temperature gradient. Though there are numerous plant TPC studies, plants remain under-represented in syntheses of TPCs. Further, few studies quantify plant TPCs from fitness-based measurements (i.e. growth, survival and reproduction at the individual level and above), limiting our ability to draw conclusions from the existing literature about plant thermal adaptation. We describe recent plant studies that use a fitness-based TPC approach to test fundamental ecological and evolutionary hypotheses, some of which have uncovered key drivers of climate change responses. Then, we outline three conceptual questions in ecology and evolutionary biology for future plant TPC studies: (i) Do populations and species harbour genetic variation for TPCs? (ii) Do plant TPCs exhibit plastic responses to abiotic and biotic factors? (iii) Do fitness-based TPCs scale up to population-level thermal niches? Moving forward, plant ecologists and evolutionary biologists can capitalize on TPCs to understand how plasticity and adaptation will influence plant responses to climate change.
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